CATALOGUE THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO Recent Acquisitions in Americana WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is devoted to a broad range of new acquisitions. These include a large part of the great atlas, The Atlantic Neptune; the first London edition of Thomas Jef- ferson’s first book; Daguerre’s first pamphlet on photography; and a series of American color plate books by Beauclerk, Cassin, Elliot, Heade, and Heine. Also present are such classics as the narrative of the first Russian circumnavigation, by Krusenstern; a primary French and Indian War work, by Jefferys; Downing’s book on American fruits, with the seldom seen color plates; important Abraham Lincoln items; a number of rare Civil War pieces; and much more. Available on request or via our website are our recent catalogues 345 The American Revo- lution, 346 Western Americana, 347 The Streeter Sale Revisited, Fifty Years Later, 348 The Best of the West, 350 Rare Americana, and 351 Travels & Voyages; bulletins 48 American Scenes and Views, 49 Manuscripts, and 50 Picturing the 20th Century; e-lists (only available on our website) and many more topical lists. q A portion of our stock may be viewed at www.williamreesecompany.com. If you would like to receive e-mail notification when catalogues and lists are uploaded, please e-mail us at [email protected] specifying whether you would like to receive the notifications in lieu of or in addition to paper catalogues. If you would prefer not to receive future catalogues and/or notifications, please let us know. Terms Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described and are considered to be on approval. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrange- ments are made. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance charges are billed to all nonprepaid domestic orders. Overseas orders are sent by air unless otherwise requested, with full postage charges billed at our discretion. Payment by check, wire transfer, or bank draft is preferred, but may also be made by MasterCard or Visa. William Reese Company Phone: (203) 789-8081 409 Temple Street Fax: (203) 865-7653 New Haven, CT 06511 E-mail: [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com ON THE COVER: 38. [Connecticut Carriage Advertisement]: Lawrence, Bradley & Pardee, Carriage Manufacturers, Nos. 61 and 67 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn. Hartford. [ca. 1860]. Contemporary News of the Lincoln Assassination 1. Abott, Abott A.: THE ASSASSINATION AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AT WASHINGTON, ON THE 14th OF APRIL, 1865. New York: American News Company, [1865]. 12pp. Self-wrappers. Stitching perished. Very good. According to Midland Notes, this is the “first separately published account of the assassination.” Each leaf is edged in black to represent mourning. The text covers events of the evening of the 14th of April and through the morning of the 15th, including the events at Ford’s Theatre and the attack on Secretary Seward. It was probably printed within a few days of Lincoln’s death, certainly prior to the capture of any of those connected with the plot. “Employs the garbled and conflicting deathbed dispatches, and possibly their earliest appear- ance in pamphlet form” – Eberstadt. FISH 3. MONAGHAN 372. McDADE 607. MIDLAND NOTES 4:1. EBERSTADT 165:451. $2250. With Frederick Douglass and Others 2. [African-Americana]: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CON- VENTION OF COLORED PEOPLE, AND THEIR FRIENDS, HELD IN TROY, N.Y., ON THE 6th, 7th, 8th AND 9th OCTO- BER 1847. Troy: J.C. Kneeland & Co., 1847. 32pp. Dbd. Light foxing to final leaf. Very good. A scarce pamphlet recording the proceedings of the 1848 National Convention of Colored People, attended by Frederick Douglass and other notable African Americans. Included here are reports by committees on the possibility of establishing African American Commerce with Jamaica and the West Indies, agriculture, and the best approaches toward abolition. Looming large at the convention was the question of whether it would be advisable to establish a National Press as a vehicle for the movement – a newspaper “that shall constantly point out the principles which should guide our conduct and our labors, which shall cheer us from one end of the land to the other, by recording our acts, our sufferings, our temporary defeats and our steadily approaching triumph – or rather the triumph of the glorious truth ‘Human Equality,’ whose servants and soldiers we are.” In attendance at the meeting was Frederick Douglass, who argued with many others that a press on that scale would be unsustainable: “A paper started as a national organ, would soon dwindle down to be the organ of a clique....He was in favor of sustaining the Ram’s Horn, National Watchman, and Northern Star.” Scarce. Unrecorded by Blockson or Sabin. OCLC locates fewer than ten cop- ies. $2750. 3. Agassiz, Louis: Cabot, J. Elliot: LAKE SUPERIOR: ITS PHYSICAL CHARACTER, VEGETATION, AND ANIMALS, COMPARED WITH THOSE OF OTHER AND SIMILAR REGIONS...WITH A NARRATIVE OF THE TOUR...AND CONTRIBUTIONS BY OTHER SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMEN. ELEGANTLY ILLUS- TRATED. Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850. x,[2],[9]-428pp. plus advertisements and seventeen plates. Original publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Small repairs to spine and corners. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Partially unopened. Very good. First edition of this scarce and celebrated account of the natural life and landscape of the Lake Superior region, by Swiss biologist and geologist Louis Agassiz. He was renowned for his innovative scholarship of natural history, eventually emigrat- ing to the U.S. where he became a professor of zoology and geology at Harvard. “Considered to be the most authoritative work on the Lake Superior region for that time” – Lande. HOWES A88, “aa.” TPL 3044. SABIN 506. LANDE 1531. $750. 4. Alcedo, Antonio de: THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORI- CAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES. CONTAINING AN ENTIRE TRANSLATION OF THE SPAN- ISH WORK...WITH LARGE ADDITIONS AND COMPILA- TION FROM MODERN VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, AND FROM ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC INFORMATION. London. 1812-1815. Five volumes. [2],xl,[16],574; [4],597; [4],512; [4],636; [4],462, [2],105pp. Modern black cloth, spines gilt. Front hinges of several volumes cracking, shelf numbers in white ink on spine, institutional stamps and mark- ings on titlepages, top edges, and rear pastedowns. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Good plus. First English translation, after the first Madrid edition of 1786. An important reference work on colonial Spanish America, arranged as an alphabetical gazetteer of places, with a wealth of statistics and data on each, as well as a dictionary of terms peculiar to the Americas in the last volume. Contains descriptions of all the major provinces of Latin America, as well as Spanish outposts in the present-day Southwest and Southeast, including Florida and California. Borrows from most of the reliable contemporary and earlier accounts of travel and exploration. Translated from the Spanish by G.A. Thompson. Sabin quotes Lowndes as stating that this edition, because of its additions, is far superior to the original Spanish version. SABIN 683. $2500. Susan B. Anthony Charged for Illegally Voting 5. [Anthony, Susan B.]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRIAL OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ON THE CHARGE OF ILLEGAL VOTING, AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NOV., 1872, AND ON THE TRIAL OF BEVERLY W. JONES, ED- WIN T. MARSH AND WILLIAM B. HALL, THE INSPECTORS OF ELECTION BY WHOM HER VOTE WAS RECEIVED. Roch- ester, N.Y. 1874. vii,212pp. Bound to style in half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Titlepage repaired in outer margin. Light tanning, otherwise internally clean. Very good. The scarce published transcript of the famous 1873 trial in which Anthony was convicted of illegal voting and fined $100. She had cast a vote in the 1872 presi- dential election in Rochester (voting for Ulysses S. Grant). After her conviction she told the court, “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty,” and true to her word, she did not. The work also includes an account of the trial of the three election workers who accepted the votes of Anthony and fifteen other women. $3500. 6. [Armstrong, James L.]: REMINISCENCES; OR AN EXTRACT FROM THE CATALOGUE OF GENERAL JACKSON’S ‘JUVE- NILE INDISCRETIONS,’ BETWEEN THE AGES OF 23 AND 60. [N.p. 1828]. 8pp. Folded half sheet. Some foxing. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. A scarce anti-Jackson pamphlet from the 1828 presidential campaign. According to the preface the author, Dr. James L. Armstrong, is “A gentleman of irreproach- able character in the State of Tennessee, near the place where Gen. Jackson himself resides. Dr. Armstrong served in the last war, and is a highly respected member of the Methodist church.” In this short screed he demonstrates Jackson’s “intemperate life and character” by describing more than a dozen duels, challenges, and other altercations, including detailed descriptions of the fight with Thomas Hart Benton and the notorious Dickinson duel. He claims that these are “only a short extraction” of Jackson’s belligerence, and that he has evidence of “nearly one hundred fights or violent and abusive quarrels.” WISE & CRONIN 143. $950. 7. Audubon, John James: ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY, OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ACCOMPANIED BY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECTS REPRESENTED IN THE WORK ENTITLED THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, AND INTERSPERSED WITH DE- LINEATIONS OF AMERICAN SCENERY AND MANNERS. Ed- inburgh: Adam Black, 1831. xxiv,512,15pp. Lacks half title. Large octavo. Original cloth, rebacked, paper label.